GHANDI: ALL RELIGIONS ARE TRUE

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GHANDI ALL RELIGIONS ARE TRUE
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I hold it as the duty, of every cultured man and
woman, to read sympathetically the scriptures of
the world. If were to respect others religions
as we would have them respect our own, a friendly
study of the worlds religions is a sacred duty.
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MAHATMA GANDHITHE GREAT SOUL1869-1948
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BRITISH EMPIRE

• Longest Empire Rule (at least 1727-1948) India,
  Gandhis homeland
• By 1921, the British Empire
• Held sway over about 458 million people,
  one-quarter of the earths population
• Covered about 14.2 million square miles, or a
  quarter of the Earths total land mass

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BRITISH EMPIRE

• Encompassed territories on every continent,
  including the British Isles, British North
  America, British West Indies, British Guiana,
  British West Africa, British East Africa, India,
  Australia, and New Zealand

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THE SUN NEVER SET ON THE BRITISH EMPIREAT
ITS PEAK, BECAUSE IT SPANNED THE GLOBE, THE SUN
WAS ALWAYS SHINING ON AT LEAST ONE OF ITS
NUMEROUS COLONIES
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DARWINIAN SOCIAL THEORY

• This theory implied that humans, like every other
  organism on earth, were the result of evolution.
• Contemporaries used Darwins ideas to promote
  Social Darwinism Certain peoples, poorer
  quality than others, are thus more likely to be
  used as slave labor because they're "less
  evolved" and therefore inferior.
• http//stephan.grandpre.net/darwin.html

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WHAT WAS APARTHEID?
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APARTHEID AND SOUTH AFRICA
Blacks Whites
Population 19 million 4.5 million
Land Allocation 13 87
Share of Natl Income lt20 75
Min. Taxable Income 360 Rands 750 Rands
Doctors/population 1/44,000 1/400
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EVIL, INJUSTICE, HATRED EXIST ONLY INSOFAR AS WE
SUPPORT THEM THEY HAVE NO EXISTENCE OF THEIR
OWN.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can
feel themselves honored by the humiliation of
their fellow beings.
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A NEW DEFINITION OF COMMUNITY
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The Hindu caste system is comparable to class
structures in other countries, except that this
Indian system has been rigidly enforced and has
lasted for two or three thousand years. The caste
system was enforced as law throughout the
subcontinent until the adoption of the Indian
constitution in 1949, which outlawed the caste
system. However, it remains a deeply ingrained
social structure, particularly in rural India.
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• Brahmins -- the priests, scholars, and
  philosophers
• Kshatriyas -- the warriors and rulers, those
  concerned with the defense and administration of
  the village or state
• Vaishyas -- traders, merchants, and agricultural
  producers
• Shudras -- the laborers and servants for the
  other castes
• The Untouchables -- performed the most menial
  jobs, such as dealing with dead bodies and
  cleaning toilets. Higher-caste people believed
  that if they touched one of the caste-less, they
  would be contaminated and would need to go
  through cleansing rituals.Gandhis caste

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The caste system dictated your occupation, choice
of spouse, and many other aspects of your life.
If you did something outside your caste, you
could be excommunicated from your caste. That
would cut you off from doing any work to support
yourself because you could only do the jobs
allowed by your caste. http//ask.yahoo.com/2002
0722.html
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I have ceased for over forty years to hate
anybody. But I can and do hate evil wherever it
exists.
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Karnataka
There is no God here. If God were here,
everyone would have access.
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REVOLUTION TRULY BEGINS AT HOME WITH HOME RULE
THAT IS, MORAL CHOICE BEGINS WITH SOMETHING AS
SIMPLE AS WHAT ONE EATS
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INDIAN HOME RULE
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ASCETICISM
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SERMON ON THE MOUNT

• Beatitudes (Blessed are the poor in spirit for
  theirs is the kingdom of heaven)
• Lords Prayer
• Famous admonitions
• You are the salt of the earth
• Turn the other cheek
• Do not lay up for yourselves treasures of the
  earth
• No one can serve two masters
• Judge not that you be judged
• Ask and it will be given to you

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GANDHI DID NOT BELIEVE IN CONVERSION. INSTEAD,
HE REASONED, WE SHOULD PRACTICE THE TRADITION
INTO WHICH WE ARE BORN MORE DEEPLY RATHER THAN
JUMP INTO ANOTHER.
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Truth is experimental, he believed, so Gandhi
continuously tried out new truths. He even
named his autobiography The Story of My
Experiments with Truth. Truth is the goal
toward which one works.
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ALL RELIGIONS ARE TRUE. AS SUCH, WE CAN LIVE
THEM OUT TRULY IN OUR LIVES.
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RAMGODALLAH
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IF WERE TO RESPECT OTHERS RELIGIONS AS WE WOULD
HAVE THEM RESPECT OUR OWN, A FRIENDLY STUDY OF
THE WORLDS RELIGIONS IS A SACRED DUTY.
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I OBJECT TO VIOLENCE BECAUSE WHEN IT APPEARS TO
DO GOOD, THE GOOD IS ONLY TEMPORARY.THE EVIL IT
DOES IS PERMANENT.
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NON-HARMINGWE HAVE NO GROUNDS FOR TAKING
ANOTHERS LIFE.
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Gandhi offered a higher challengeRefuse to
obey such degrading legislation and accept the
consequences without violent retaliation but also
without yielding an inch in the demand for fair
and equal treatment under the law.
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THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF WAR
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EVIL, INJUSTICE, HATRED EXIST ONLY INSOFAR AS WE
SUPPORT THEM THEY HAVE NO EXISTENCE OF THEIR
OWN.
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GHANDI ANACTIVE FORM OF RESISTANCEHOLDING
FAST TO TRUTH
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EVEN IN HIS GREATEST CAMPAIGNS, THEN, GANDHI WAS
A GREAT COMPROMISER, BELIEVING THAT YOU DID NOT
WIN ANY CONFRONTATION IF YOU LEFT THE OTHER
PERSON FEELING LIKE A LOSER. THEN, YOURE LEFT
WITH AN OPPONENT EVEN IF YOUVE WON.
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Gandhi at Round Table Conference in London
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When all violence subsides in the human heart,
the state which remains is love. It is not
something we have to acquire it is always
present and needs only be uncovered.
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The Great Soul, 1869-1948